1939 cartoon about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, aimed at dividing Europe into two spheres of influence between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Under the Secret Protocol, Poland was to be shared, while Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia went to the Soviet Union.
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by PjeterPannos
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2 years – After that a rocking break up with couple then fighting over house and guardianship over kids they forcibly adopted
Don’t ask a Soviet apologist why Russian history of WW2 only starts in 1941.
Long live cartoonist😍
Never forget !
ChatGPT, replace Hitler face with Trump and Stalin face with Putin
Never forget or diminish the Soviet role in WWII
In before the horde of angry tankies arrives.
I always pictured Hitler as the bride.
The part about Finland aged like milk.
The Russian empire and Russian imperial dreams never died, it just changed its face. Until it is stamped out and broken they will continue.
Where are all the trolls? Have they not received new instructions about how to answer this post from their superiors?
He cried like a bitch for days when they broke up. Tragic love story.
And after the war the world has indeed been divided into two between murica and the very same soviet union. Let’s not forget that either… The western world has very conveniently sold out half of europe like cattles.
20 years from now, we’ll be able to read what the terms of the Trump-Putin Pact were.
What about Munich Agreement? Oh, wait, its…not the same, yes?
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Anticommunists love repeating this piece, yet can never explain why France and the UK refused to form an alliance with the USSR against the Nazis 🤔
Instead of Bessarabia, you should say parts of Romania.
It was the whole part of so called Basarabia (eastern Moldova, across the Prut river) – parts of which are now inside the Republic of Moldova, parts inside of Ukraine – and northern Bucovina area.
“Basarabia” unlike the others mentioned, wasn’t a country, but a part of a country – Romania – inhabited by Romanians.
Raises into question what the Secret Protocols of today might be.
Correction: Lithuania was part of the German Sphere of Influence originally. Only later it was revised and Lithuania was added to the Soviet sphere of influence in exchange of Germany gaining more control of Poland.
Now someone remake it with Putin as Hitler and Trump as Stalin. Or Orban as Stalin. Or just make it a template.
If im correct the initial plan was germany taking lithuania and not the urss
If this makes hitler and Stalin allies then Germany and Poland would be allies too because the carved up Czechoslovakia together and signed a non aggression pact in 1934
Not to diminish everything Stalin did (Katyń massacre, Finland invasion, annexation of the Baltics states and so on), but just point me at the country that didn’t worked with the Nazis back then. That’s right: everybody did and nobody was really ashamed of it. For instance: the first two countries to recognise Vichy France was USSR and USA. I’m not even talking about Chamberlain selling out Czechoslovakia and France doing nothing about remilitarisation of Rhineland.
And I think we should stop portraying Poland as an innocent victim of the two evils. Because Poland was just as evil. I bet most of this sub is pro-Ukrainian right now, yet somehow everybody forgot how Polish regime used to oppress Ukrainian minority in the Western Ukraine and doing exactly the same in Western Belarus. There is no such thing as “Eastern Poland” people are talking about. It’s Western Belarus and Western Ukraine. Oh, and I’m not talking about Poland annexing Vilnius in 1920 and Zaolzie in 1938. And they weren’t nice to any of the people they occupied. Remember, Poland declined every League of Nations initiative on protection of the minorities.
What I’m saying is Stalin was terrible and Hitler was even worse. But there were literally no saints back then. And if so, maybe in the end capitulation of the worst evil was worth having just evil instead?
in russia you’re always the bride never the bridesmaid
It looks like attempts at secret agreements between Britain, the United States and Hitler in 1944, it’s good that the USSR had excellent agents and Stalin presented these things to the allies in Tehran and subsequent conferences.
Anyone who complains about the Soviets saying that they were “pro-Nazi authoritarians” is a spoiled child who, without them, would still be living under Nazism today.
Rather than blaming Ribbentrop-Molotov (whom neither the USSR nor the Third Reich believed in, both continued to hate each other), go and repeat a bit what the liberal “democrats” in the UK, France, Germany and Italy thought about the rise of fascism, and those who initially supported it in Italy
Chilling how they casually carved up countries like pieces on a board. History hits hard.
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